Improvement in cotton-presses



2 Sh eets--Sheet1 J. P. BOLIN.

improvement in Cotton-Presses.

No. 116,144. .Frmt Pate'ntedlune20,1871.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES P. BOLIN, OF ORANGEBURG COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,144, dated June 20,1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES P. BOLIN, of Orangeburg county, State of SouthCarolina, have invented a Lever Cotton-Press, of which the following isa specification:

N atnrc and Objects of the Invention.

Description of the Accompanying Drawing. I

Figure l is a front elevation of the press.

Fig. 2 is a back elevation of the same with the upper part of the boxtaken out.

General Description.

L is the frame; I, the box; K, the upper part of the box, removable; N,pieces of the frame in which the gudgeons of the wheel-shaft work; M,pieces of the frame in which the rollers P P, Fig. 2, work; 0, a cap forholding the rollers down. G G are four braces tenoned in rollers l? P,and bolted on either side to levers F F, which are bolted infollow-block H.

By turning the leverA the rope O is wound on the shaft B, turning wheelD, winding chain E E around the shaft in wheel D, drawing together thelower ends of levers F F, raising together the braces G G, at the sametime raising the follow-block H in the box I, which compresses thecotton to the required extent.

Claim.

I claim as my invention-- The arrangement, in the cotton-press hereindescribed, of the frame L, follower H, levers F F, braces G G, wheel D,chain or rope E E, rope O, and Windlass B, when all these parts areconstructed and operated as shown and described, for the purpose setforth.

Witnesses: JAMES P. BOLIN.

RALPH E. B. HEWETSON, A. O. PHIN.

